Hooters Air officials are not saying whether they will return to Nassau and three other cities where flights were suspended in December and January for “seasonal adjustments.”
The airline’s Web site has not been taking reservations for flights from the Nassau International Airport for about a month, though it was taking March reservations when the flight suspensions were originally announced in December.
Hooters Air also is not taking reservations from Gary, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; and Las Vegas, which suffered flight suspensions at the same time.
Hooters Air officials did not return repeated calls Monday for information on the possible resumption of flights.
Gary, Indiana Airport Director Paul Karas said he was told by Hooters Air president Mark Peterson on Friday that the airline still is sorting through scheduling arrangements.
“As far as we are told, it’s status quo right now and they are still deliberating,” Karas said Monday. “If they restart, we will take that as a positive.”
Among arrangements the airline is looking at are tour packages to Las Vegas, Karas added.
The regularly scheduled flights went to Myrtle Beach, S.C., St. Petersburg, Fla., Nassau and Las Vegas. The airline announced Dec. 19 those flights would be suspended from Jan. 9 until March.
The ending of the last Hooters flights Jan. 9 left the airport with no regularly scheduled passenger airline service.
Hooters also ended all service from the Greater Rockford Airport in Illinois on Jan. 5.
BY KEITH BENMAN, nwitimes.com
